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My computer is 2 years old and has been working very well. About 2 months
ago it started to spontaneously re-boot. I did some research and unchecked
automatically restart in system properties. Then I started getting the blue
screens.
Usually the screen says “IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL” “STOP: 0x0000000A
(0xE0C37E040,0x00000001,0x00000000,0x804FD9BD)
And sometimes “PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA” “STOP: 0x000000050
(oxE8C13980,0x00000000,0x804FD9BD,0x00000002)
I did a lot of searching on the web and often bad memory was suggested as a
reason. So I dwnloaded and ran memtest86. I ran it several times overnight
and always got zero errors. So it would appear that the memory is OK.
I use Drive Image to back-up every month. So I restored an image from
several months ago before I saw the blue screens. I checked the windows
\minidump folder to be sure there were no blue screens at the time the
image was made. And the result was the blue screens continued.
So if I restored an image from before the blue screens started and the blue
screens did not go away does this point to a hardware problem? And if so
where should I look? The blue screens do not happen often, somewhere
between 4 minutes and 4 days.
I have checked all the fans and they work fine. The CPU runs cool. I blew
out all the dust with a can of air.
My hardware: MSI 850 Pro5 mainboard, 2.4 Pentium IV, 1 GB memory
ago it started to spontaneously re-boot. I did some research and unchecked
automatically restart in system properties. Then I started getting the blue
screens.
Usually the screen says “IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL” “STOP: 0x0000000A
(0xE0C37E040,0x00000001,0x00000000,0x804FD9BD)
And sometimes “PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA” “STOP: 0x000000050
(oxE8C13980,0x00000000,0x804FD9BD,0x00000002)
I did a lot of searching on the web and often bad memory was suggested as a
reason. So I dwnloaded and ran memtest86. I ran it several times overnight
and always got zero errors. So it would appear that the memory is OK.
I use Drive Image to back-up every month. So I restored an image from
several months ago before I saw the blue screens. I checked the windows
\minidump folder to be sure there were no blue screens at the time the
image was made. And the result was the blue screens continued.
So if I restored an image from before the blue screens started and the blue
screens did not go away does this point to a hardware problem? And if so
where should I look? The blue screens do not happen often, somewhere
between 4 minutes and 4 days.
I have checked all the fans and they work fine. The CPU runs cool. I blew
out all the dust with a can of air.
My hardware: MSI 850 Pro5 mainboard, 2.4 Pentium IV, 1 GB memory